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Liberty and its Price: Understanding the French Revolution by Donald M.G. Sutherland

Liberty and its Price: Understanding the French Revolution

by Donald M.G. Sutherland


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Esteemed professor Donald M.G. Sutherland provides a riveting account of the French Revolution, explaining how its effects varied greatly according to regional economies, social structures, and religious affiliations. He examines how massive counter revolutionary movements profoundly affected the course of the Revolution, Leading to the failure of constitutional government and, ultimately, to an elitist dictatorship (in the person of Napoleon Bonaparte) that paved the way for many of the struggles of the nineteenth century.

Lecture 1 Definition of Revolution

Lecture 2 Revolution of Elites

Lecture 3 Popular Revolution

Lecture 4 Restructuring and Early Opposition

Lecture 5 War Revolutionizes the Revolution

Lecture 6 Massacres and Republic

Lecture 7 Death of a King

Lecture 8 Terror

Lecture 9 Thermidor or the Failure of Law

Lecture 10 The Directory and Victory

Lecture 11 The Road to Brumaire

Lecture 12 Formation of a Dictatorship

Lecture 13 Empire

Lecture 14 The Disaster


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